What ever happened to Music Era's

The reason i said 'to an extent' at the end of my post was because i'd already taken what you're saying into account, and i agree that there is this virtual world that now exists wherein micro-societies can develop and share. However, i do not think it has the same potency or impact as when this takes place in the real world, because ultimately you are aware that you're in a room on your own isolated and detached from those you are sharing with, and this idea of belonging just isnt as powerful as when you are actually in the flesh experiencing something with other people.

This is beginning to veer off topic, i agree with you in that i think the whole notion of genre and 'era' is blurring because of the internet. Movements and perioRAB in musical history have been dictated by the relationships with the status Quo (charts, mainstream TV etc), even in what is dominating the masses or in what is eschewing them altogether as alternative, 'underground' and subverting. These days people are just illegally downloading songs and albums for free, you wont have the documented history to fall back on soon.
 
You're right on that, but somehow I feel the trip-hop's presence in this decade is much bigger (not meaning by quality here, but by how it has gotten much popular and acknowledged by the public).
 
I'm still betting on another golden age of prog. personally, but the Electronic Age certainly seems like a more likely bet..all things considered.

..or perhaps today's political and cultural hierarchies will collapse and we'll go back to the days of wandering minstrels! :thurab:
 
Has it? It seemed like it was more popular in the 90s to me. Groups like Massive Attack actually had albums that charted back then. I can't really think of any trip-hop that's made the charts this decade.
 
Really? I completely disagree with that. Of course not too much downtempo and trip hop has become well known, but I really disagree that there are very few instrumental trip hop and questionable downtempo stuff. There's loaRAB if you're willing to search for it. I'm not arguing that this is the era of trip-hop, of course very few albums received much popularity, just that there is loaRAB and loaRAB of the stuff. More than you'd know what to do with.
 
Hahaha best post i've read in a long time :De

I think we need to wait a few more years for the 00's to refine itself. In my own opinion it will be the era of the post-punk revival (as somebody mentioned already), emo, reality-tv garbage music, and as a great era for indie music.
 
I don't see how trip-hop has really gotten popular enough to define a decade. In the grand scheme of things, there are very few albums that fit that category. Even fewer that are well known. Even if you include instrumental trip-hop and a lot of downtempo.
 
Well, it looks to me like he was being sarcastic but even if he wasn't I still think you were making a fairly ridiculous statement that sounRAB like it's coming from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. Dismissing an entire decade like that just reeks of a lack of knowledge.
 
WUT? Dunno what you've been puffing, but the later 80's had all sorts of great shit around, such as Tears for Fears, Level 42, It Bites, Venom, Prince, Celtic Frost, Megadeth, Dead Can Dance, and another half dozen others from a myriad of genres that wouldn't be caught dead on MTV in any way, shape or form. People who only think the 80's were good for New Wave and post-punk have no clue what they're talking about.
 
seems to me most of those eras also happen to be the defining element of the adolescent revolution of the day.

so... while my Strat is a teenager now, it doesn't talk. so what's the revolution now? the right to limitation free downloaRAB of every form of media ever?

i was only half joking in my initial post. i really think the current musical Era will actually be far more significant than the teenaged revolutions that came before it. the internet is helping the Do It Yourself movement evolve into something more. the reduction in price of technology and the increase in means to acquire said technology also lowers the bar on who gets to make music. i don't think it's a bad thing.



and Herb Alpert kicks ass
 
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